Anna Tschetter

I actually really liked how this ended! I appreciated it filling out how Shinji's choice is really about hope for a better world and accepting that hurt can come with love and connection and that's part of the whole deal.

The sweetest romance and I didn't even mind reading about baseball!

While I think I prefer Kaworu's treatment in the (OG) anime, I found this interpretation interesting. Also, I always love to see Asuka ripping a battleship in half. Slay Queen.

Space is scary - don't go to space. Also, it's always the corporations. Never trust a corp.

I think this is better than Dead Space and I really liked the therapy and trauma angle. Good spooky space fun!

A sweet Christmas Day read!

I liked Olivia Dade's Spoiler Alert series but I think this is even better. Both main characters are flawed but lovable humans and I found her depiction of depression realistic.

Such a needed book in the US's fucked up landscape showing the affects of criminalizing and shaming abortion on everyone in involved. Caletti writes such good road trip novels and the BEST families.

A perfect read for a sad, sick Christmas or any time! Yang remains the GOAT with an incredible reminder to leave your heart open for love even through the pain.

It's interesting that I have never read this as it's sort of a YA graphic novel classic. I just haven't gotten around to it!

I did really enjoy the depiction of depression and how hard and confusing it can be to be a teen girl.

I'm appreciate more background info on Kaji and Dr. Akagi but knocking off a star for (tw: animal abuse) Kaworu killing a kitten! Uncalled for!

Giant robots in space with a dash of cosmic horror thrown in? Sounds good to me. Enjoyable though I'm not sure I'm invested enough to read another volume.

Still cute and fun. If you like cooking, fantasy bestiaries, or just Dungeons and Dragons this series is for you!

Another sweet volume! I liked how we get to see the passage of time of Takahiro growing up and loved the doctor's backstory as a test pilot!

I don't know how to rate this so I'm just not going to. I found parts of this to be interesting and helped me understand a little bit more about specific trauma thingies - the concepts behind Internal Family Systems, the disconnect in the body of traumatized people between feelings and emotions, etc- but other parts just made me feel so icky.

He often talks about how attractive his patients are and it can feel like he bends over backward to feel extra empathic for people who have confessed to doing horrible things like murder and child rape. (Not that traumatized people who end up doing horrible things don't deserve compassion - we all do - but he walks a line between compassion for them and absolving them of all responsibility for their actions in a way that made me very uncomfortable!)

Anyway, I can also see how folks say this is a better book for clinicians than traumatized people/survivors and I think that makes sense. I found Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know to be way more impactful and enlightening than this one even while finding some passages interesting and helpful.

This was very sweet and fun! It's perfect for fans of Dungeons and Dragons and anyone who enjoys reading about magical creatures.

5 stars for making this MORE upsetting than the anime. RIP Toji

This was wonderful! A robot runs a cafe in post apocalyptic Japan and drinks 80% of the coffee she makes. She has like three total customers. The art is beautiful and the characters are so sweet. It's like a warm hug. If you like Becky Chambers Monk and Robot series you will also like this!!

I enjoyed but didn't love this. It feels bad to ask someone to share in depth about traumatic stuff but . . . it felt very surface level. :

Anna's Year of Manga (TM TM TM) continues with another one shot by Fujimoto. I liked Goodbye, Eri a bit more but I still liked this sweet friendship story torn about by violence. Through this I learned about the Kyoto Animation arson in 2019 which I had not heard about which is absolutely heartbreaking.

A good read if you want to be a little sad. (I always want to be a little sad.)

I've been watching on and off as my partner watches the anime and this was fun! It does some great setup with Luffy being a weird little dude. Enjoyable!

This was really beautiful but WAY gorier than I expected. And for some reason I either didn't know or forgot that it's 99% wordless. Gorgeous art and an interesting story well told via images.

This year is ending up to be a year of manga and adult fiction (because Alex Awards) so I had heard of this but when it was in Libby, I grabbed it. While the story is a fairly standard magic school/training story (not a bad thing!) the art is INCREDIBLE and really stood out to me. Definitely, I'm intrigued and will continue on.

Beautiful and hard to read about depression and loneliness and parental expectations. I think this is a relateable story for many, many teens.

This is so sweet and heartfelt while also being hilarious. I enjoyed learning more about Wuhan than just COVID!

I really enjoyed this! Eloise is really funny and heartfelt when talking about her OCD and autism. She also helped me to understand “Disney adults” a bit more which I appreciated.

UH OH it's getting SAAAAD.